workweek reading recs (27 October 2025) SPOOKY SEASON SPECIAL 🎃

[matsushima]

• Finally, the truth behind the ‘haunted’ Dybbuk Box can be revealed (08/2021)
• Our Haunted Apartment in Montreal (10/2022)
• The Lessons of Lore (2024/10)
• When Horror is the Truth-Teller (2023/10)
• Has Witch City Lost its Way? (10/2021)
• Final Girl, Terrible Place (10/2022)
• ‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis? (01/2025)
• From the archives: The Corpse Rider: Lacfadio Hearn and Japan's ghosts (2019/10)
• From the archives: Before TV, Kids Would Flock to Midnight Ghost Shows (10/2013)
• From the archives: The weird world of 'haunted' eBay: "Purchase with caution" (10/2019)
• From the archives: "Hole in the Wall" by 4000ofthem for Jezebel's Scary Stories Contest 2017
  Want to hear something really scary? This story won't load on the original page or Archive.org and I was only able to find it thanks to an archivist on Reddit who saves all of their faves to a big Google Doc that they shared. The internet, it turns out, is not forever.
• Podcast: In Bed with the Right: Episode 101 -- Powers of Horror (Film), Part 1
• Podcast: Kill The Computer: The Grand Inquisitors (Dead Internet Theory)
• Podcast: American Hysteria: On Haunted Houses with Carmen Maria Machado
• Podcast: You Are Good: Friday the 13th (1980)
• Fiction: The Great Old Pumpkin by John Aegard in Strange Horizons
• Which Super Little Dead Girl™ Are You? Take Our Quiz and Find Out! by Nino Cipri in Nightmare Magazine
• Poetry: Wendigo by Louise Erdrich
• Poetry: All Hallows by Louise Glück
• Poetry: The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

Comments

[merrileemakes]

Thanks for sharing this list! I especially liked the haunted apartment article.

Watching Zak's idiotic ghost shows is one of my guilty pleasures, I was amused to see him pop up in the Dybbuk article.

I was watching a YouTube review of Predator the other day and this comment now lives rent free in my head: Predator is a slasher fic and Arnold Schwarzenegger is the final girl.